RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Experiences of a sleep disorders center: 1700 patients later
JF Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
JO Cleve Clin J Med
FD Cleveland Clinic
SP 46
OP 51
VO 64
IS 1
A1 Mendelson, Wallace B.
YR 1997
UL http://www.ccjm.org/content/64/1/46.abstract
AB Sleep studies reveal many patients to have specific sleep abnormalities different from what might be suspected from the clinical history. For example, in our experience, patients who were later found to have central sleep apnea presented with chief complaints of excessive sleepiness or insomnia. In patients requesting evaluation for sleep apnea, screening studies that detect only sleep-disturbed breathing (ie, oximetry) may miss other diagnoses in one fourth of cases.